France

France’s labor movement, student protests and political conflicts in focus. Follow disputes over public services, living costs and civil liberties, and the forces shaping the country’s future.

Pamphlets V9 card: Protesters could pay for damage they did not cause

27 Oct 2026

France’s ‘Rioters Pay’ Bill Puts Every Protester’s Wallet on the Line

26 Oct 2026

Macron Offers Education Concessions as French Student Revolt Spreads

Pamphlets V9 breaking-news card featuring Marine Le Pen and the headline Le Pen Launches — 2027 Bid on France’s Crisis

25 Oct 2026

Le Pen Launches 2027 Bid on France’s Crisis—With a Conviction Behind Her

Pamphlets breaking-news card on France’s 410,000-person protest and planned strike

25 Oct 2026

410,000 March Across France as Unions Call National Strike

Pamphlets V9 card showing French student protesters at the Monument to the Republic with the headline France deploys 70,000 police as cost-of-living protests return

24 Oct 2026

France Deploys 70,000 Police as Cost-of-Living Protests Return

Pamphlets breaking news card: Racist terror strikes Trappes

23 Oct 2026

Racist Terror in Trappes Exposes the Cost of France’s Politics of Hate

Pamphlets V9 card reading “Macron expands protest bans as revolt grows” over an October 2, 2026 photograph of students outside Lycée Jules Ferry in Paris. Photo: Guallendra, CC0; focal crop.

22 Oct 2026

Macron Calls Ultra-Left Acts ‘Seditious’ as France Expands Protest Bans

19 Oct 2026

France’s Cost-of-Living Protests Put Austerity and Democratic Accountability on Trial

ARCHIVE — Students march in Paris on October 6, 2026, during the high-school protest movement. Photo: FreCha/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not the October 17 march.

17 Oct 2026

France’s students and unions flood streets as police fire tear gas

ARCHIVE October 6, 2026: French students rally in Paris demanding adequate public education; 4:3 crop of FreCha documentary photograph

13 Oct 2026

Greta Joins French Students Protesting School Conditions

ARCHIVE: BYD Seal 08 electric car photographed October 7, 2026 by JustAnotherCarDesigner, CC0; not a photograph of a French factory or the Paris Motor Show.

12 Oct 2026

BYD Weighs France Factory Amid Auto Trade Fight

12 Oct 2026

Mélenchon Backs Student Protests and Vote at 16

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